The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-14

hungry duck on er June bug, but there
warn't no conscript officers round thar
then.
when the fight was over" said old
man Plunket, with long sigh, II went
over yonder by them three big trees
what you see standing off to themselves,
and right there was where they had
what they called field hospital and of
all the sights ever seed It was there.
There was a plle of scraps there as big as
your corn crib arms, legs, skulls,
hands. feet, everything, and layin off to
one side was dead men and horses, and
me and Brown stepped over ermong
'em, and what should we see bat the
young officer what I've teld you erbout,
layin' with his face turned up to
the sun. and We said right erway we'd
bury him as well as we could, so Brown
he went to loosen the collar OF the blue
coat what looked like it was chokin'
him, and he jumped hack the same as
he'd been shot and lowed its q woman
and it was woman. Heg 4a
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"Whstever Pfunket says you can de-
pend on. stranger" said old man
Brown as he settled back in his chair.
~ believed when the war first started
that could whip the best three Yam
KEGS that could be fetched before me,
erlong secession times when we all had
these here cockades pinned on our coats
/ talked aecordin'. EAa III js5} ana a
after the wer had run erlong about
er year thought maybe couldn't
back up all I'd said and believed erbout
being able to hex the three best Yam
KEGS, and decided that maybe, in or
der to be certain, I'd better fall one and
make it two, and so talked accordin'.
IL was dead shore could whip two or
the rascals the best day they ever seed
till the war had gone erlong for over two
years, and then / he'd a talk with the old
oman and the gals aud | decided Ill
fall one more-that would put it man to
man, and I'd er swore to that. and I
talked accordin'.
.Arter while the conscript Law was
maxim things mighty squally and
seemed to sorter throw er damper on
things generally, and had come to the
conclusion that d man as old as me was
more'n apt 10 be mistaken erbout his
self. so decided that if could call back
erbOut twenty years / knoWed / could
stand my hand with one or them, but I
couldn't call the years back, so talked
accordin'.
When the Yankees did come / didn't
have time TO do any fghtin', and don't
know till this day how I'd er come out
If it had or been convenient for me to
tackle EN-. / was kept busy keepin'
what little had out'en the way of the
soldiers. and l didn't do that, for one
side or the other got it all.
"Our own town folks had mighty
strange ways of doing things. They
had ey law that wouldn't allow a fellow
to go and give one-tenth of every tar
nell thing you made, and haul it TO the
guartermaster, and then the dinged
would And out where you
lived in spite of all you could do, and
they'd come to your house and "press"
the balance and give you darned little
old piece er paper with some printin' ON
it that warnt worth scent confederate
er wagon load. When Sher-
mans gang came erlong didn't have
tarnel thing left but three old hens, an
old ram and one old goose. When
herd the Yankees was comm dug me
3 hole in the ground down in the woods |
back er the lot and put the hens and the |
Did gander IN and then covered it with |
rails and leaves, and I'd er swore I'd er |
kept them, but ] didn't. When the |
Yankees come they went down to the |
lot 'zaminin' Ground, and what should |
the old gander do but work his head up |
through the rails and leaves, and when /
be heard the YANKEES he let IN to hol- |
erin qua, qua. qua, and the Yankees
it out down thar and caught all of 'em
put one old hen, and they took after her
and she few up in the tree whar I'd hid
What little meat had by hanging it on
he limbs er way up in the top and the
Yankees sighten Ground ate. the old
len, found it, and then shot the old hen
md went away with the whole business.
It tickled them, but we couldn't see
lothin' funny erbout it. Since then I've
,een rustier, and I'm mighty careful
What say-and so talk according. y
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